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[Poll] Computing favorities

Started by"Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid>
First post2015-08-19 14:31 -0400
Last post2015-09-23 08:01 -0400
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  [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-19 14:31 -0400
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities sidd@situ.com (sidd) - 2015-08-19 14:53 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-19 16:18 -0400
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-19 22:06 +0000
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-20 11:23 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Trog Woolley <trog@email.fake> - 2015-08-22 14:48 -0500
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 09:05 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-19 16:17 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-19 20:23 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-19 17:19 -0400
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-20 07:07 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities mausg@mail.com - 2015-08-20 08:06 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-20 15:23 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-20 18:00 +0100
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-20 15:51 -0500
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-08-20 14:08 -0700
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-20 18:15 -0400
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2015-08-20 17:41 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-20 00:40 +0100
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-19 22:06 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2015-08-19 21:29 +0100
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-20 11:17 +0100
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hankvc@blackhole.lostwells.org (Hank) - 2015-08-22 21:48 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-19 17:08 -0400
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-19 17:24 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-19 22:04 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-08-25 13:07 +0000
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-20 15:56 -0500
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-20 18:18 -0400
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-08-20 23:21 +0000
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities lawrence@cluon.com - 2015-08-21 02:02 +0200
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-08-19 14:28 -0700
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities mausg@mail.com - 2015-08-20 08:13 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-20 11:21 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-20 14:09 -0400
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-20 11:51 -0700
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-20 14:22 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-20 12:56 -0700
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2015-08-20 23:29 -0500
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-21 07:26 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2015-08-21 23:05 -0500
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2015-08-20 23:24 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-21 06:07 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-19 22:00 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-19 22:05 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@cfaj.ca> - 2015-08-19 18:11 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-19 18:33 -0400
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Louis Krupp <lkrupp@nospam.pssw.com.invalid> - 2015-08-19 22:33 -0600
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-20 11:44 -0700
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2015-08-20 07:36 +0100
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-08-20 13:25 -0400
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Mike Causer <m.r.causer@goglemail.com> - 2015-08-20 20:11 +0100
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-21 07:02 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-20 19:15 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities lawrence@cluon.com - 2015-08-21 02:06 +0200
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-25 14:58 -0400
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities David Jones <djones60@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 06:04 -0700
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Daiyu Hurst <daiyu.hurst@gmail.com> - 2015-08-21 06:37 -0700
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2015-08-21 15:10 +0100
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-21 09:20 -0700
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-21 16:27 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-21 17:02 -0400
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-22 00:40 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 15:54 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:28 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-26 13:44 -0700
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-21 23:37 -0400
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-22 08:28 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 19:28 +1000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-22 08:28 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-22 09:25 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-22 12:13 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-22 08:29 -0700
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-22 14:16 -0400
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-22 13:16 -0700
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 08:57 +0000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 05:36 +1000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 08:55 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-25 15:09 -0400
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:24 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-25 13:36 -0700
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-25 20:40 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 02:07 -0400
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-31 20:31 -0400
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-31 18:04 -0700
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-09-03 16:20 -0400
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-25 16:01 -0700
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 02:04 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-31 20:23 -0400
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-25 20:34 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:29 -0500
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Howard S Shubs <howard@shubs.net> - 2015-08-23 00:01 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-22 23:22 -0400
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-23 07:04 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-23 10:47 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 09:29 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 16:04 -0500
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 08:54 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-23 15:22 -0400
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 17:23 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 21:25 +0000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 19:12 -0400
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-24 10:24 +0200
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-24 05:24 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-22 14:10 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities lawrence@cluon.com - 2015-08-23 01:01 +0200
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-22 16:48 -0700
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 15:58 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-25 06:52 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-25 12:09 +0100
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:14 -0500
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-26 04:03 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-08-26 21:56 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-26 19:03 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-26 23:41 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Mike Causer <m.r.causer@goglemail.com> - 2015-08-27 20:00 +0100
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-27 16:16 -0500
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 21:31 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-28 13:20 -0700
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-28 15:39 -0500
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-28 20:51 +0000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-28 22:53 -0700
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Jim Thomas" <JT@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 08:59 +1000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2015-08-21 23:15 -0500
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities bert <bert.hutchings@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-22 01:46 -0700
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2015-08-22 18:01 -0600
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-24 13:58 +0000
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-21 12:59 -0700
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 09:17 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 16:39 +0000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 13:49 -0400
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-23 13:25 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 15:21 -0400
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 05:46 +1000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Johnny B Good <johnny-b-good@invalid.ntlworld.com> - 2015-08-23 20:41 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-24 09:50 +0200
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 20:38 +1000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-24 14:48 +0200
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-24 13:20 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-24 14:04 +0100
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities lawrence@cluon.com - 2015-08-24 17:33 +0200
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-25 13:34 -0400
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-25 13:38 -0400
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-25 18:23 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-25 19:46 +0100
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:03 -0400
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 04:31 +1000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 21:19 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 07:52 +1000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-24 09:19 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 20:44 +1000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-08-24 19:16 +0000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-24 20:43 +0000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 08:37 +1000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Mike Causer <m.r.causer@goglemail.com> - 2015-08-27 20:45 +0100
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-24 05:24 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-24 11:12 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 04:40 +1000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-24 16:47 -0400
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 08:53 +1000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-25 10:10 -0700
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-08-25 13:36 -0500
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-25 14:58 -0400
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 14:45 -0500
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-26 04:03 +0000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-08-26 09:37 -0500
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:19 -0400
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities pechter@S20.pechter.dyndns.org (William Pechter) - 2015-08-25 20:32 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 16:55 -0500
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 02:16 -0400
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-26 11:14 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-26 21:33 +1000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 09:37 -0400
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-26 18:48 +0100
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 15:12 -0400
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-27 11:09 +0100
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-27 09:29 +1000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-27 13:40 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-27 10:15 -0400
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-28 05:17 +1000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 07:19 -0700
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 15:05 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-25 15:33 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:13 -0400
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:03 -0500
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-26 04:51 +1000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:00 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-26 06:30 +1000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-25 20:38 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-26 07:36 +1000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:10 -0500
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 07:42 -0700
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-26 18:58 -0400
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-26 23:40 +0000
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-27 01:13 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-08-26 21:55 -0500
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 06:53 +0000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-27 11:11 +0100
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-27 11:37 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-08-27 08:54 -0400
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 19:23 -0700
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-27 13:40 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 14:19 +0000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-08-27 12:11 -0700
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 19:20 +0000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-28 13:31 +0000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 07:16 -0700
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-26 16:08 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 11:32 -0700
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-26 14:59 -0400
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 15:20 -0400
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 19:12 -0700
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 13:41 +1000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-27 07:06 +0000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-27 11:20 +0100
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 11:32 +0000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-27 11:37 +0000
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-27 09:42 -0700
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-08-27 13:54 -0500
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Trog Woolley <trog@email.fake> - 2015-08-29 17:13 -0500
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-28 05:42 +1000
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-28 02:10 +0000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-08-27 08:06 -0500
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-27 14:38 +0000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-08-26 13:33 -0500
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 15:26 -0400
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-27 11:23 +0100
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 11:30 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-27 14:35 +0200
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-27 14:17 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-27 10:33 -0700
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-27 11:36 -0700
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-27 11:37 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.co.uk> - 2015-08-27 12:27 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-27 16:46 +0100
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-27 16:10 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 17:49 +0000
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-27 13:40 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-27 10:17 -0400
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 14:21 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-27 14:23 +0000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-27 15:39 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-27 09:53 -0700
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-28 05:51 +1000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-09-11 18:47 -0400
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-09-12 11:23 +1000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-12 13:24 +0000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-28 13:31 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-28 07:54 -0700
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-28 19:16 +0100
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-28 12:22 -0700
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-28 19:48 +0000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-29 13:41 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2015-08-29 17:50 +0000
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-30 06:56 +0000
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-30 14:58 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 06:35 +1000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 06:10 +1000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-28 19:31 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 05:57 +1000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-29 13:41 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-29 08:59 -0500
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-30 05:35 +1000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-30 14:58 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-30 16:02 +0000
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-31 12:09 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-31 14:48 +0000
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-31 10:03 -0700
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-31 10:07 -0700
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-31 17:30 +0000
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-31 11:26 -0700
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-31 18:53 +0000
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-31 20:11 +0000
                                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-31 14:22 -0700
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-31 18:53 +0000
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-31 12:21 -0700
                                                        Response time Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-09-15 17:23 -0400
                                                          Re: Response time Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-09-15 22:30 +0000
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2015-08-31 16:20 -0700
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-01 12:50 +0000
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 05:19 +1000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 04:59 +1000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-09-15 16:19 -0400
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-16 12:54 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2015-08-30 10:41 -0700
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-09-16 13:01 -0400
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-09-17 08:29 -0400
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-31 06:38 +1000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 04:54 +1000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-29 13:41 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-30 06:11 +1000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-28 05:19 +1000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-28 13:31 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-29 04:43 +1000
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-27 09:39 -0700
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-27 18:09 +0100
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-27 13:51 -0400
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-28 08:40 +0100
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-29 14:54 -0400
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-29 20:12 +0100
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-29 15:21 -0400
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-29 19:30 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-29 22:10 -0400
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-30 05:22 +0100
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-30 06:51 +0100
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-30 14:58 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-30 16:02 +0000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-30 14:06 -0400
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-31 06:43 +1000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-09-02 15:03 -0500
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-02 14:02 -0700
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-09-02 22:46 -0700
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-09-03 09:36 -0400
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-03 07:29 -0700
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-03 20:01 +0000
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-03 13:25 -0700
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-09-03 21:53 +0100
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-09-04 10:58 +0000
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-04 18:17 +0000
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-09-03 15:41 -0700
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-08 10:28 -0700
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-09 00:39 +0000
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-09-08 20:56 -0700
                                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-09-24 13:02 -0400
                                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-25 12:59 +0000
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-09-09 10:12 +0000
                                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities simon@twoplaces.co.uk (Simon Turner) - 2015-09-10 08:35 +0100
                                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-09-15 18:26 -0400
                                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-09-15 18:27 -0400
                                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-09-15 18:28 -0400
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-09-09 07:02 -0500
                                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-09-09 14:40 +0000
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-09 07:02 -0700
                                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-09-09 15:41 +0100
                                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name> - 2015-09-09 17:59 +0200
                                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-09-10 11:17 +0100
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-30 16:42 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-09-02 14:56 -0500
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-08-29 17:25 -0500
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-31 13:48 +0000
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-31 13:51 -0400
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-31 18:17 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-31 16:04 -0400
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-31 19:12 +0100
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-31 13:42 -0500
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-31 18:53 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-09-28 12:21 -0400
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-09-29 12:32 +0000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-09-30 15:34 -0400
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> - 2015-10-01 01:38 +0000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hankvc@blackhole.lostwells.org (Hank) - 2015-10-01 16:27 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-10-01 15:21 -0400
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-10-02 03:34 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-02 13:11 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-10-02 13:11 +0000
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-10-02 07:32 -0700
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-10-02 13:46 -0400
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-10-02 13:09 -0700
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-10-06 19:44 -0400
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-31 19:10 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-31 20:09 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-08-31 21:00 +0000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-31 12:15 -0700
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-31 20:31 +0100
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-31 19:41 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-08-31 22:04 -0500
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-09-01 18:46 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-09-01 15:38 -0400
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-02 08:13 -0700
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-09-03 00:17 +0200
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-02 08:10 -0700
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-09-02 08:05 -0700
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-26 21:21 +0000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-27 05:42 +1000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-08-27 08:59 -0400
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-27 10:02 -0400
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 16:49 -0500
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-26 02:15 -0400
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-27 15:35 -0500
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-24 23:09 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 09:43 +1000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-25 06:55 +0000
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 17:19 +1000
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-25 09:10 +0000
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 19:23 +1000
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-25 11:26 +0000
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-26 04:43 +1000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-24 15:01 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 16:22 -0500
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-25 15:39 -0400
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:18 -0500
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-31 20:38 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 08:35 +1000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2015-08-25 15:37 -0400
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-25 16:27 -0400
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-26 07:36 -0700
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-25 17:32 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-24 16:52 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-25 10:16 -0700
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-26 04:03 +0000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-24 12:22 -0700
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 08:41 +1000
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-23 18:47 +0000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 15:16 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 17:18 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 21:20 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 17:31 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-24 09:55 +0200
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 07:53 +1000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-24 09:18 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-24 01:17 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-08-24 10:28 +0200
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> - 2015-08-24 12:40 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-24 13:18 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-08-25 04:34 +1000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-23 22:39 +0100
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-24 09:16 +0000
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-24 10:34 +0100
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-08-24 10:58 +0000
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2015-08-24 13:04 +0100
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-24 14:09 +0100
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-24 14:52 +0100
                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-08-24 16:41 +0100
                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-08-24 19:29 +0100
                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-08-24 15:32 -0700
                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andy Burns <usenet.feb2014@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2015-08-25 07:16 +0100
                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-10-07 18:38 -0400
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-10-07 19:26 -0500
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-08 08:46 +0200
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-08 21:50 +0200
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-09 13:28 +0000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-09 10:25 -0400
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-09 18:07 +0300
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-09 11:24 -0400
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-09 10:55 -0500
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-09 12:18 -0400
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2015-10-09 20:49 +0100
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-09 16:42 -0500
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-09 15:45 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-10-09 17:32 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-10-09 19:20 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-09 19:32 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-09 15:36 -0400
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-09 20:56 +0000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-10 16:21 +0100
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2015-10-09 17:51 -0400
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-09 22:51 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-09 22:55 -0400
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities David Hume <David.Hume@example.com> - 2015-10-10 04:27 +0100
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-10-10 09:57 +0100
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-10-10 17:09 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-10 13:57 -0400
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-10 18:05 -0500
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-10 00:30 -0400
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-10 09:01 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-10 03:38 -0700
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-10 11:22 +0000
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-10 18:13 -0500
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-10 23:57 +0000
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-10 09:24 -0400
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-10 11:33 -0400
                                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-10 20:20 +0300
                                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-10 15:22 -0400
                                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-11 09:39 +0100
                                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 13:23 -0400
                                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) - 2015-10-11 17:56 +0000
                                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 14:18 -0400
                                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-11 12:24 -0700
                                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-12 00:06 +0000
                                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) - 2015-10-12 07:17 +0000
                                                        OT: systemd (was: [Poll] Computing favorities)     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-10 10:44 -0700
                                                          Re: OT: systemd Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-10 15:29 -0400
                                                          Re: OT: systemd Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-10 22:31 +0300
                                                            Re: OT: systemd Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-11 09:41 +0100
                                                              OT: Wayland (was: systemd)     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-11 09:06 -0700
                                                                Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 13:31 -0400
                                                                  Re: OT: Wayland     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-11 10:36 -0700
                                                                    Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 14:15 -0400
                                                                      Re: OT: Wayland Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-10-11 19:53 -0300
                                                                        Re: OT: Wayland Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-10-12 02:45 +0200
                                                                          Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 22:43 -0400
                                                                            Re: OT: Wayland Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-10-12 02:58 -0300
                                                                              Re: OT: Wayland Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-12 08:34 +0100
                                                                              Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-12 08:28 -0400
                                                                                Re: OT: Wayland Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-10-13 00:58 -0300
                                                                                  Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-13 13:21 +0000
                                                                                    Re: OT: Wayland Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-10-13 14:07 +0000
                                                                                      Re: OT: Wayland Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-13 16:55 +0100
                                                                                    Re: OT: Wayland Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2015-10-13 13:24 -0300
                                                                                      Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-13 17:43 +0000
                                                                                        Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-13 16:09 -0400
                                                                                          Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-14 13:07 +0000
                                                                                            Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-14 09:20 -0400
                                                                                              Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-14 14:26 +0000
                                                                                                Re: OT: Wayland Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-14 16:41 +0200
                                                                                                  Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-14 15:50 +0000
                                                                                                Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-14 10:47 -0400
                                                                                                  Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-14 15:52 +0000
                                                                                                    Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-14 12:59 -0400
                                                                                            Re: OT: Wayland Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2015-10-14 14:45 +0100
                                                                                              Re: OT: Wayland scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-14 14:32 +0000
                                                                            Re: OT: Wayland Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2015-10-12 13:05 +0100
                                                                              Re: OT: Wayland Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-12 08:31 -0400
                                                                                Re: OT: Wayland Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2015-10-12 13:38 +0100
                                                                                  Re: OT: Wayland Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-12 16:41 +0000
                                                                            Re: OT: Wayland Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com> - 2015-10-12 18:15 +0200
                                                                        Re: OT: Wayland Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-10-12 05:24 +0000
                                                                    Re: OT: Wayland Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-12 00:19 +0300
                                                                      Re: OT: Wayland Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-11 21:46 +0000
                                                              Re: OT: systemd Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 13:24 -0400
                                                                Re: OT: systemd Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-10-12 00:25 +0300
                                                                  Re: OT: systemd Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-11 18:37 -0400
                                                          Re: OT: systemd (was: [Poll] Computing favorities) Greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2015-10-10 19:38 +0000
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-10 18:08 -0500
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities andrew@cucumber.demon.co.uk (Andrew Gabriel) - 2015-10-11 17:31 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-10-10 11:23 -0400
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gordon Henderson <gordon+usenet@drogon.net> - 2015-10-10 17:34 +0000
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Roberto Waltman <usenet@rwaltman.com> - 2015-10-10 19:28 -0400
                                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-10-11 07:12 +0000
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-10 19:45 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-10-10 07:12 +0000
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-10 00:39 -0700
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-10-10 09:16 -0400
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-10 10:11 -0400
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-10 18:21 -0500
                                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-11 10:55 -0400
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-11 04:45 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "John E. Davis" <jed@jedsoft.org> - 2015-10-12 17:53 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-10 18:01 -0500
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-10 23:57 +0000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-09 15:03 +0000
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-09 15:46 +0000
                                            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-09 16:30 +0000
                                              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-09 18:15 +0000
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-10-09 18:57 +0000
                                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-09 20:15 +0000
                                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-10-09 15:09 -0700
                                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-09 20:52 +0000
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-10-08 21:17 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-08 12:07 -0400
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2015-10-08 13:15 -0500
                                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-08 05:14 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2015-10-08 13:06 +0000
                                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-10-08 12:29 -0400
                                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-08 12:44 -0500
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-08 15:37 -0500
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-10-08 19:19 -0700
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-10-09 06:26 -0500
                                          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-09 16:40 -0500
                                      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-10-09 16:14 +0000
                                        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-10-09 16:46 -0500
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-24 07:29 -0400
                  Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-24 13:20 +0000
                    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-24 12:10 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-24 00:06 +0100
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 13:02 +1000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2015-08-23 23:35 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Alan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca> - 2015-10-07 12:19 -0400
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-23 15:27 -0400
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-24 01:17 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 13:10 +1000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 16:28 -0500
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2015-08-24 16:27 -0500
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 05:48 +1000
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-08-23 21:32 +0000
                Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-24 07:57 +1000
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Andrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com> - 2015-08-24 00:00 +0100
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-23 21:18 +0000
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-23 11:31 -0700
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-23 12:08 -0700
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-24 08:22 -0700
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-08-24 19:29 +0000
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-24 18:37 -0400
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-24 18:38 -0400
          Re: [Poll] Computing favorities     wje@acm.org (Bill Evans) - 2015-08-24 15:54 -0700
            Re: [Poll] Computing favorities hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-25 10:21 -0700
              Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-26 04:55 +1000
        Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospan@nspam.invalid> - 2015-08-24 18:41 -0400
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com> - 2015-08-25 08:47 +1000
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2015-08-24 16:25 -0700
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-08-24 14:05 -0700
    Re: [Poll] Computing favorities James Dow Allen <jdallen2000@yahoo.com> - 2015-09-17 04:19 -0700
      Re: [Poll] Computing favorities "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2015-09-23 08:01 -0400

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#150910

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2015-09-02 05:19 +1000
Message-ID<d4miu0F2uebU7@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#150902

"jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:PM00051EAF3EDC4518@aca240f8.ipt.aol.com...
> Peter Flass wrote:
>> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>>> Peter Flass wrote:
>>>> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>> Osmium wrote:
>>>>>> "jmfbahciv" wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Andrew Swallow wrote:
>>>>>>>> On 28/08/2015 15:54, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 9:32:24 AM UTC-4, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>>>>>>>>> You are talking about IBM machines.  I was talking about DEC
>>>>>>>>>> machines.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Did DEC support time-shared interactive FORTRAN, accessed via a
>>>>>>>>> Teletype?  If so, was it commonly used?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> For DEC users who had a high volume of input, perhaps lab
>>>>>>>>> observations, did they still use a Teletype to enter them?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> A Teletype is great for small volumes of data since it is easy to
>>>>>>>>> learn and use.  However, for high volumes of data it is quite
>>>>>>>>> cumbersome, as it does not have the keying aides that a real 
>>>>>>>>> keypunch
>>>>>>>>> machine has.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> While 1960s BASIC accepted numbers of varying length separated by 
>>>>>>>>> a
>>>>>>>>> comma, I think FORTRAN _of that era_ required fixed length fields, 
>>>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>>>> defined by a FORMAT statement.  That meant a Teletype user had to
>>>>>>>>> carefully zero fill all numbers and manually space to the proper
>>>>>>>>> column, while a keypunch operator hit skip or the machine did so
>>>>>>>>> automatically via drum card.  The keypunch keyboard was faster to
>>>>>>>>> type on by an experienced operator than a Teletype keyboard.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> DEC did have a Fortran that ran on the PDP-11 but aligning the 
>>>>>>>> fields
>>>>>>>> was a chore.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you mean the coding fields?  A <TAB> would be used to separate 
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> first field from the statement field.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This thread seems to be about some Fortran compiler that was much 
>>>>>> more
>>>>>> restrictive than the ones you and I used.   I started with Fortran II
> and
>>> it
>>>>>> had some fixed format attributes, but never anything that became a
>>>>>> noticeable problem.  I thought it was pretty much standard, McCracken
> was
>>>>>> the text book we used. There must have been a Fortran <no number>, 
>>>>>> maybe
>>>>>> that is the subject here.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh, OK.  I thought most were talking about IBMish FORTRANs which 
>>>>> didn't
>>>>> do disks.  When they did implement disk storage, the methods were
>>>>> still card-based.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Every  IBM FORTRAN I ever used did disks (except maybe 1620 FORTRAN 
>>>> II).
>>>
>>> How did the FORTRAN code input a disk file?
>>
>> Same way it reads anything READ(unit,format) list,
>
> That isn't FORTRAN II syntax.  The first time I encountered that syntax
> was FORTRAN IV.

Yes, Fortran II had a slightly different syntax, but
it was still perfectly possible to do the same thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran#FORTRAN_II
shows an example of
C INPUT - TAPE READER UNIT 5, INTEGER INPUT
C OUTPUT - LINE PRINTER UNIT 6, REAL OUTPUT
C INPUT ERROR DISPLAY ERROR OUTPUT CODE 1 IN JOB CONTROL LISTING
      READ INPUT TAPE 5, 501, IA, IB, IC
  501 FORMAT (3I5)

>> if I recall the syntax after 30+ years.  The unit number was assigned
>> to a disk file somehow or other, you yourself mention ASSIGN below.
>> IBM did it with JCL: //FT01n005
>> DD UNIT=DISK...
>> The DDNAME somehow corresponded to the FORTRAN unit number.

>>>>> I never used FORTRAN I but I had understood that it was FORTRAN II
>>>>> without the disk.  IOW, the object time system had to be loaded
>>>>> before any FORTRAN program in the card hopper.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Once again, when the heck was this? on a 704?
>>>
>>> No, 1620.  All output was cards or a message on the system console.
>>> Our 1620 did have a disk but it was used to load compilers and
>>> assemblers instead of using a card deck.
>>
>> Typically student jobs on the 1620 wouldn't use disk.
>
> On the machine I worked on, nobody used disk as a user.
> Just the monitor...this is 1620.

>>> When we got the PDP-10, if we didn't want to read/punch cards, the only
>>> way to run the IBM library, was to issue the commands to the 4s72
>>> monitor:
>>>
>>> ASSIGN DSK 5
>>> ASSIGN DSK 6
>>>
>>> Instead of cards, the files FOR05.DAT and FOR06.DAT would be used.
>>> It took a big mindset change to think of disk files rathern than
>>> cards.  I talked with prospective customers who were IBM COBOL
>>> programmers.  They had a very difficult problem thinking about
>>> compilation turnaround times in seconds rather than days or weeks.
>>> Their idea of "real time" was very different from DEC's notion
>>> of real time.  Theirs had to do with downstream proccessing and
>>> ours had to do with reality.
>>>
>>> /BAH
>>
>> Any non-overloaded system would be fast.  TSO had subsecond response time
>> when I ran something at 3:00 on a Sunday morning.  Most systems I ever
>> worked on, IBM and non-IBM, were overloaded.
>
> <grin>  You didn't understand what I talked about

Wrong.

> which illustrates the difference I tried to describe.

You mangled that utterly, as always., 

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#150870

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2015-09-01 04:59 +1000
Message-ID<d4jmhfFb586U1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#150836

"jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:PM00051E9A8CEA3C62@aca42529.ipt.aol.com...
> Peter Flass wrote:
>> jmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com> wrote:
>>> Osmium wrote:
>>>> "jmfbahciv" wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Andrew Swallow wrote:
>>>>>> On 28/08/2015 15:54, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>>>>>> On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 9:32:24 AM UTC-4, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>>>>>>> You are talking about IBM machines.  I was talking about DEC
>>>>>>>> machines.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Did DEC support time-shared interactive FORTRAN, accessed via a
>>>>>>> Teletype?  If so, was it commonly used?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> For DEC users who had a high volume of input, perhaps lab
>>>>>>> observations, did they still use a Teletype to enter them?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A Teletype is great for small volumes of data since it is easy to
>>>>>>> learn and use.  However, for high volumes of data it is quite
>>>>>>> cumbersome, as it does not have the keying aides that a real 
>>>>>>> keypunch
>>>>>>> machine has.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> While 1960s BASIC accepted numbers of varying length separated by a
>>>>>>> comma, I think FORTRAN _of that era_ required fixed length fields, 
>>>>>>> as
>>>>>>> defined by a FORMAT statement.  That meant a Teletype user had to
>>>>>>> carefully zero fill all numbers and manually space to the proper
>>>>>>> column, while a keypunch operator hit skip or the machine did so
>>>>>>> automatically via drum card.  The keypunch keyboard was faster to
>>>>>>> type on by an experienced operator than a Teletype keyboard.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DEC did have a Fortran that ran on the PDP-11 but aligning the fields
>>>>>> was a chore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you mean the coding fields?  A <TAB> would be used to separate the
>>>>> first field from the statement field.
>>>>
>>>> This thread seems to be about some Fortran compiler that was much more
>>>> restrictive than the ones you and I used.   I started with Fortran II 
>>>> and
> it
>>>> had some fixed format attributes, but never anything that became a
>>>> noticeable problem.  I thought it was pretty much standard, McCracken 
>>>> was
>>>> the text book we used. There must have been a Fortran <no number>, 
>>>> maybe
>>>> that is the subject here.
>>>
>>> Oh, OK.  I thought most were talking about IBMish FORTRANs which didn't
>>> do disks.  When they did implement disk storage, the methods were
>>> still card-based.
>>
>>
>> Every  IBM FORTRAN I ever used did disks (except maybe 1620 FORTRAN II).
>
> How did the FORTRAN code input a disk file?
>
>>>
>>> I never used FORTRAN I but I had understood that it was FORTRAN II
>>> without the disk.  IOW, the object time system had to be loaded
>>> before any FORTRAN program in the card hopper.
>>
>>
>> Once again, when the heck was this? on a 704?
>
> No, 1620.  All output was cards or a message on the system console.
> Our 1620 did have a disk but it was used to load compilers and
> assemblers instead of using a card deck.
>
> When we got the PDP-10, if we didn't want to read/punch cards, the only
> way to run the IBM library, was to issue the commands to the 4s72
> monitor:
>
> ASSIGN DSK 5
> ASSIGN DSK 6

> Instead of cards, the files FOR05.DAT and FOR06.DAT would be used.

It wasn’t the primitive on the CDC 3600, you could specify the file name.

> It took a big mindset change to think of disk files rathern than cards.

Like hell it did. I went from the 360/50 which had no disk
to the 3600 which had a drum and an editor effortlessly.
Using an ASR33 and a dialup modem.

> I talked with prospective customers who were IBM COBOL
> programmers.  They had a very difficult problem thinking about
> compilation turnaround times in seconds rather than days or weeks.

BULLSHIT. We changed effortlessly.

> Their idea of "real time" was very different from DEC's
> notion of real time.  Theirs had to do with downstream
> proccessing and ours had to do with reality.

Even sillier than you usually manage. IBM
did plenty of timeshare rather than batch. 

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#151411

FromAlan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca>
Date2015-09-15 16:19 -0400
Message-ID<mt9ucb$qf0$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#150836
On 2015-08-31 8:09 AM, jmfbahciv wrote:>> Once again, when the heck was this? on a 704?
>
> No, 1620.  All output was cards or a message on the system console.
> Our 1620 did have a disk but it was used to load compilers and
> assemblers instead of using a card deck.

Disk was limited, so it was primarily used for loading a few
executable programs like compilers and assemblers.  It was also
used for intermediate temporary files; for example to pass information
between phases of a compiler.

However, Fortran II on the 1620 DID allow the programmer to
do disk I/O for *A* temporary file.  This was not the device independent
I/O that later appeared in Fortran IV.
   DEFINE DISK    - Allocate disk space
   RECORD         - write to disk starting a specific sector within file
   FETCH          - read from disk staring at specific sector
   FIND           - Start a seek to a specific sector in anticipation
                    of a later RECORD or FETCH for that sector.
FIND was never needed except to speed things up.

Personally, I never used FORTRAN II disk I/O.

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#151432

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2015-09-16 12:54 +0000
Message-ID<PM00051FDCBD8B7888@aca4280e.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to#151411
Alan Bowler wrote:
> On 2015-08-31 8:09 AM, jmfbahciv wrote:>> Once again, when the heck was
this? on a 704?
>>
>> No, 1620.  All output was cards or a message on the system console.
>> Our 1620 did have a disk but it was used to load compilers and
>> assemblers instead of using a card deck.
>
> Disk was limited, so it was primarily used for loading a few
> executable programs like compilers and assemblers.  It was also
> used for intermediate temporary files; for example to pass information
> between phases of a compiler.
>
> However, Fortran II on the 1620 DID allow the programmer to
> do disk I/O for *A* temporary file.  This was not the device independent
> I/O that later appeared in Fortran IV.
>    DEFINE DISK    - Allocate disk space
>    RECORD         - write to disk starting a specific sector within file
>    FETCH          - read from disk staring at specific sector
>    FIND           - Start a seek to a specific sector in anticipation
>                     of a later RECORD or FETCH for that sector.
> FIND was never needed except to speed things up.
>
> Personally, I never used FORTRAN II disk I/O.

Curious.  I do not remember any of those keywords.  Could they be
eliminated by a site?  We were a university with lots of kiddies
(including the staff of the computer center) playing around with
the computer.

/BAH

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#150817

FromGerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net>
Date2015-08-30 10:41 -0700
Message-ID<d6d2fdd2-9d3f-4cff-a322-b6a08c3fc55f@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#150806
On Sunday, August 30, 2015 at 9:57:52 AM UTC-5, jmfbahciv wrote:
> Osmium wrote:
> > "jmfbahciv" wrote:
> >
> >> Andrew Swallow wrote:
> >>> On 28/08/2015 15:54, hancock4 wrote:
> >>>> On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 9:32:24 AM UTC-4, jmfbahciv wrote:
> >>>>> You are talking about IBM machines.  I was talking about DEC
> >>>>> machines.
> >>>>
> >>>> Did DEC support time-shared interactive FORTRAN, accessed via a
> >>>> Teletype?  If so, was it commonly used?
> >>>>
> >>>> For DEC users who had a high volume of input, perhaps lab
> >>>> observations, did they still use a Teletype to enter them?
> >>>>
> >>>> A Teletype is great for small volumes of data since it is easy to
> >>>> learn and use.  However, for high volumes of data it is quite
> >>>> cumbersome, as it does not have the keying aides that a real keypunch
> >>>> machine has.
> >>>>
> >>>> While 1960s BASIC accepted numbers of varying length separated by a
> >>>> comma, I think FORTRAN _of that era_ required fixed length fields, as
> >>>> defined by a FORMAT statement.  That meant a Teletype user had to
> >>>> carefully zero fill all numbers and manually space to the proper
> >>>> column, while a keypunch operator hit skip or the machine did so
> >>>> automatically via drum card.  The keypunch keyboard was faster to
> >>>> type on by an experienced operator than a Teletype keyboard.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> DEC did have a Fortran that ran on the PDP-11 but aligning the fields
> >>> was a chore.
> >>
> >> Do you mean the coding fields?  A <TAB> would be used to separate the
> >> first field from the statement field.
> >
> > This thread seems to be about some Fortran compiler that was much more
> > restrictive than the ones you and I used.   I started with Fortran II and it
> > had some fixed format attributes, but never anything that became a
> > noticeable problem.  I thought it was pretty much standard, McCracken was
> > the text book we used. There must have been a Fortran <no number>, maybe
> > that is the subject here.
> 
> Oh, OK.  I thought most were talking about IBMish FORTRANs which didn't
> do disks.  When they did implement disk storage, the methods were
> still card-based.
> 
> I never used FORTRAN I but I had understood that it was FORTRAN II
> without the disk.  IOW, the object time system had to be loaded
> before any FORTRAN program in the card hopper.
> 
> /BAH

The IBM 1620 with (IBM and also Kingston) FORTRAN II did (or rather
could) use disks, provided that you installed the IBM Monitor
--- which was a type of overlayed hypervisor which kept a very small
piece of code laying around so that when a program ended (FORTRAN, 
SPS, GOTRAN, the Disk Utility Program, or whatever user program), it 
would regain control and then reload itself from disk.  If that 
small piece was overlaid with part of a program or data, there was a 
very small bootstrap (usually just a very few amount of punched 
cards) that loaded the full version from disk.

It's job was to read the input stream (in our shop, it as punched 
cards, but paper tape and also magnetic tape was supported).  We 
never had paper or magnetic tape on our system at the university),
just the usual typewriter, card reader/punch, plotter, printer,
and disk.   --- And we didn't have the floating point feature. 
We also had 40,000 digits of memory  (20,000 was the standard,
60,000 was the maximum amount you could get for the Model I).

The control cards in the input stream (cards), as I recall, had two 
field marks in col 1 and 2, followed by an   XEQ   followed by 
what program you wanted to load (from disk).  In our case, it was 
almost always the Kingston FORTRAN II [one-pass] compiler.  We also 
had IBM's FORTRAN II available, but it was a two-pass compiler and 
was slower than molasses in January,  plus, if you used floating 
point, it required that (optional) hardware feature on the IBM 1620.

If you wish to read more about the IBM 1620 Monitor: 

  http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/1620/monitor/ 

Kingston FORTRAN II used a software simulated floating point and
it compiled at reader speed --- except for real hairy statements 
that spanned several cards. You could hear the card reader pause for 
a half-second, then continue. _________________ Gerard Schildberger
 
 
 
 

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#151456

FromAlan Bowler <atbowler@thinkage.ca>
Date2015-09-16 13:01 -0400
Message-ID<mtc756$egv$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#150817
On 2015-08-30 1:41 PM, Gerard Schildberger wrote:
> Kingston FORTRAN II used a software simulated floating point and
> it compiled at reader speed --- except for real hairy statements
> that spanned several cards. You could hear the card reader pause for
> a half-second, then continue.

Kingston Fortran , would use the floating point hardware
if it was available.  It was definitely a lot faster than the
IBM compiler.  If I recall correctly, it did not however support
anything like the FANDK control card to set a different precision.

Aside, both Walter Banks and I used to work with Prof. Jim Field
who had been one of the Kingston Fortran authors years before.

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#151493

FromWalter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com>
Date2015-09-17 08:29 -0400
Message-ID<mtebme$12p$1@speranza.aioe.org>
In reply to#151456
On 16/09/2015 1:01 PM, Alan Bowler wrote:
> On 2015-08-30 1:41 PM, Gerard Schildberger wrote:
>> Kingston FORTRAN II used a software simulated floating point and it
>> compiled at reader speed --- except for real hairy statements that
>> spanned several cards. You could hear the card reader pause for a
>> half-second, then continue.
>
> Kingston Fortran , would use the floating point hardware if it was
> available.  It was definitely a lot faster than the IBM compiler. If
> I recall correctly, it did not however support anything like the
> FANDK control card to set a different precision.
>
> Aside, both Walter Banks and I used to work with Prof. Jim Field who
>  had been one of the Kingston Fortran authors years before.

Jim also worked on UT Fortran for the 1620 as an undergrad before he
went to Queens and was one of the main authors of Kingstran. After that
experience he did very little compiler development in his career.

w..

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#150823

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2015-08-31 06:38 +1000
Message-ID<d4h7v4Fmr9iU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#150806

"jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:PM00051E88A1710922@aca402e8.ipt.aol.com...
> Osmium wrote:
>> "jmfbahciv" wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Swallow wrote:
>>>> On 28/08/2015 15:54, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>>>>> On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 9:32:24 AM UTC-4, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>>>>> You are talking about IBM machines.  I was talking about DEC
>>>>>> machines.
>>>>>
>>>>> Did DEC support time-shared interactive FORTRAN, accessed via a
>>>>> Teletype?  If so, was it commonly used?
>>>>>
>>>>> For DEC users who had a high volume of input, perhaps lab
>>>>> observations, did they still use a Teletype to enter them?
>>>>>
>>>>> A Teletype is great for small volumes of data since it is easy to
>>>>> learn and use.  However, for high volumes of data it is quite
>>>>> cumbersome, as it does not have the keying aides that a real keypunch
>>>>> machine has.
>>>>>
>>>>> While 1960s BASIC accepted numbers of varying length separated by a
>>>>> comma, I think FORTRAN _of that era_ required fixed length fields, as
>>>>> defined by a FORMAT statement.  That meant a Teletype user had to
>>>>> carefully zero fill all numbers and manually space to the proper
>>>>> column, while a keypunch operator hit skip or the machine did so
>>>>> automatically via drum card.  The keypunch keyboard was faster to
>>>>> type on by an experienced operator than a Teletype keyboard.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> DEC did have a Fortran that ran on the PDP-11 but aligning the fields
>>>> was a chore.
>>>
>>> Do you mean the coding fields?  A <TAB> would be used to separate the
>>> first field from the statement field.
>>
>> This thread seems to be about some Fortran compiler that was much more
>> restrictive than the ones you and I used.   I started with Fortran II and 
>> it
>> had some fixed format attributes, but never anything that became a
>> noticeable problem.  I thought it was pretty much standard, McCracken was
>> the text book we used. There must have been a Fortran <no number>, maybe
>> that is the subject here.

> Oh, OK.  I thought most were talking about IBMish FORTRANs which didn't do 
> disks.

They did actually.

> When they did implement disk storage, the methods were still card-based.

No they were not.

> I never used FORTRAN I but I had understood that it was FORTRAN II
> without the disk.

That mangles the real story. The different versions had nothing to do with 
disks.

> IOW, the object time system had to be loaded
> before any FORTRAN program in the card hopper.

It was nothing even remotely like that even on an IBM 360/50 with no disks 
at all. 

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#150687

From"hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com>
Date2015-08-29 04:54 +1000
Message-ID<d4bpedFc43oU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#150653

<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message 
news:130ae0e2-830a-434b-9e0e-0287528ce3db@googlegroups.com...
> On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 9:32:24 AM UTC-4, jmfbahciv wrote:
>> You are talking about IBM machines.  I was talking about DEC machines.

> Did DEC support time-shared interactive FORTRAN, accessed via a Teletype?

Yes.

> If so, was it commonly used?

By the scientific and engineering communities, yes.

> For DEC users who had a high volume of input, perhaps lab
> observations, did they still use a Teletype to enter them?

DEC machines mostly captured the data directly.

> A Teletype is great for small volumes of data since it is easy to learn
> and use.  However, for high volumes of data it is quite cumbersome,
> as it does not have the keying aides that a real keypunch machine has.

Mostly that level of user didn't actually use the keying aids that
a real keypunch has. They mostly used the keypunch just like a
teletype although it was certainly easier with the keypunch just
because the data was in discrete 80 character cards.

> While 1960s BASIC accepted numbers of varying length
> separated by a comma, I think FORTRAN _of that era_ required
> fixed length fields, as defined by a FORMAT statement.

Yes.

> That meant a Teletype user had to carefully zero fill
> all numbers and manually space to the proper column,

Not if the numbers were each on their own line.

> while a keypunch operator hit skip or the
> machine did so automatically via drum card.

While that is true, very few of that level
of user actually used that capability.

> The keypunch keyboard was faster to type on by
> an experienced operator than a Teletype keyboard.

Yes, but that level of user were not experienced operators.
Very few of them were even touch typists, let alone knew
anything about the drum card and how to program it.
I did, but I also got to run the IBM 360/50 myself in the
evenings. None of them ever did. I got to fix the
keypunch when they had got it jammed too. 

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#150759

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2015-08-29 13:41 +0000
Message-ID<PM00051E731128D3BD@aca41658.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to#150653
hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
> On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 9:32:24 AM UTC-4, jmfbahciv wrote:
>> You are talking about IBM machines.  I was talking about DEC machines.
>
> Did DEC support time-shared interactive FORTRAN, accessed via a Teletype?
If so, was it commonly used?

Yes and very commonly used.
>
> For DEC users who had a high volume of input, perhaps lab observations, did
they still use a Teletype to enter them?

It depended on the project.  Physics tended to need real time capture so a
machine would be used to get it and store it.  The PDP-10 did have a real time
clock but most customers would use a PDP-8 or PDP-11 to capture the data
and used the PDP-10 for the downstream processing.  Abott Labs used the PDP-10
to capture data adn then process it.

>
> A Teletype is great for small volumes of data since it is easy to learn and
use.  However, for high volumes of data it is quite cumbersome, as it does not
have the keying aides that a real keypunch machine has.

You have forgotten about papertape.  Also we had DECtapes which were the
best peripheral media the computing biz ever had.

>
> While 1960s BASIC accepted numbers of varying length separated by a comma, I
think FORTRAN _of that era_ required fixed length fields, as defined by a
FORMAT statement.  That meant a Teletype user had to carefully zero fill all
numbers and manually space to the proper column, while a keypunch operator hit
skip or the machine did so automatically via drum card.  The keypunch keyboard
was faster to type on by an experienced operator than a Teletype keyboard.

One did not have to zero-fill for numeric data....not even on an IBM 1620.

AS for entering data, it was extremely simple to write a program to accept
datum items and store them the way the downstream processing program wanted
them.  You could even write TECO macros to do that.

Cutting a papertape was a lot easier on a PDP-10 because you could edit
the disk file with TECO and proof it.

Using disk files instead card decks was a big improvement over IBM's
requirements for card I/O.  Even the BASICs added keywords to save
the just-typed program as ASCII or the executable (back then they
were *.SAV files.

/BAH

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#150780

From"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com>
Date2015-08-30 06:11 +1000
Message-ID<d4ehvaF2ifiU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#150759

"jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:PM00051E731128D3BD@aca41658.ipt.aol.com...
> hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>> On Friday, August 28, 2015 at 9:32:24 AM UTC-4, jmfbahciv wrote:
>>> You are talking about IBM machines.  I was talking about DEC machines.
>>
>> Did DEC support time-shared interactive FORTRAN, accessed via a Teletype?
> If so, was it commonly used?
>
> Yes and very commonly used.
>>
>> For DEC users who had a high volume of input, perhaps lab observations, 
>> did
> they still use a Teletype to enter them?

> It depended on the project.  Physics tended to need real time
> capture so a machine would be used to get it and store it.

Yes, that is certainly how radio astronomy and nuclear physics etc was done.

> The PDP-10 did have a real time clock but most customers would use a PDP-8
> or PDP-11 to capture the data and used the PDP-10 for the downstream 
> processing.

Our radio astronomers used a PDP-9 at Parkes and a PDP-15 back in Sydney.
None of ours used a PDP-10 for the downstream processing.

The nuclear physics operation at the ANU in Canberra in fact
used the obsoleted IBM 1620 for direct data capture and
used the new IBM 360/50 for the downstream processing,
using punched cards to move the data from one to the other.

> Abott Labs used the PDP-10 to capture data adn then process it.

>> A Teletype is great for small volumes of data since it is easy to learn 
>> and
>> use.  However, for high volumes of data it is quite cumbersome, as it
>> does not have the keying aides that a real keypunch machine has.

> You have forgotten about papertape.

No he hasn’t. That was much more awkward to use than punched cards
for data input.

> Also we had DECtapes which were the best
> peripheral media the computing biz ever had.

That best claim is bullshit too.

>> While 1960s BASIC accepted numbers of varying length separated by a 
>> comma,
>> I think FORTRAN _of that era_ required fixed length fields, as defined by 
>> a
>> FORMAT statement.  That meant a Teletype user had to carefully zero fill 
>> all
>> numbers and manually space to the proper column, while a keypunch 
>> operator hit
>> skip or the machine did so automatically via drum card.  The keypunch 
>> keyboard
>> was faster to type on by an experienced operator than a Teletype 
>> keyboard.

> One did not have to zero-fill for numeric data....not even on an IBM 1620.

True.

>> AS for entering data, it was extremely simple to write a program to 
>> accept
>> datum items and store them the way the downstream processing program
>> wanted them.  You could even write TECO macros to do that.

> Cutting a papertape was a lot easier on a PDP-10 because
> you could edit the disk file with TECO and proof it.

But data entry for downstream data processing was not done like that.

> Using disk files instead card decks was a big improvement over IBM's
> requirements for card I/O.  Even the BASICs added keywords to save
> the just-typed program as ASCII or the executable (back then they
> were *.SAV files.
 

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#150607

From"hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com>
Date2015-08-28 05:19 +1000
Message-ID<d4966hFmrsnU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#150571

"jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:PM00051E4B0A74CC0C@aca20dba.ipt.aol.com...
> Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:26:14 -0400
>> Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> There was "folk knowledge", lots of articles saying "BASIC is the
>>> language to start with", and people would read that and pass it on,  not
>>> really giving it much thought.
>>
>>     Well the expansion of the acronym does start with Beginner's - so
>> it's a reasonable assumption. It's a pity it was intended to lead to
>> FORTRAN and COBOL not C, C++, Perl, Python and Haskell or even Lisp.
>>
>
> BASIC was used as a first-time-user training tool.  Before that FORTRAN
> was used to train kiddies on using heardware and thinking about program
> flow.

Mostly it wasn’t kiddies.

> When BASIC became available on PDP-10s, it was used as breaking
> in newbies instead of FORTRAN.  I/O, both disk and TTY, was simpler
> to teach than FORTRAN.

You've forgotten Focal. 

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#150650

Fromjmfbahciv <See.above@aol.com>
Date2015-08-28 13:31 +0000
Message-ID<PM00051E5ECC177290@aca20de0.ipt.aol.com>
In reply to#150607
hqhy wrote:
>
>
> "jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:PM00051E4B0A74CC0C@aca20dba.ipt.aol.com...
>> Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:26:14 -0400
>>> Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There was "folk knowledge", lots of articles saying "BASIC is the
>>>> language to start with", and people would read that and pass it on,  not
>>>> really giving it much thought.
>>>
>>>     Well the expansion of the acronym does start with Beginner's - so
>>> it's a reasonable assumption. It's a pity it was intended to lead to
>>> FORTRAN and COBOL not C, C++, Perl, Python and Haskell or even Lisp.
>>>
>>
>> BASIC was used as a first-time-user training tool.  Before that FORTRAN
>> was used to train kiddies on using heardware and thinking about program
>> flow.
>
> Mostly it wasn’t kiddies.

Yes, it was.
>
>> When BASIC became available on PDP-10s, it was used as breaking
>> in newbies instead of FORTRAN.  I/O, both disk and TTY, was simpler
>> to teach than FORTRAN.
>
> You've forgotten Focal.
>
Reread what I wrote.  The newbies had never used a computer before.
A simple language was used to teach both an intro to programming
thinking _AND_ how to use the computer OS and hardware.
Internals of the  machine were not part of that introduction to
using computers.

/BAH

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#150684

From"hqhy" <hqhy@nospam.com>
Date2015-08-29 04:43 +1000
Message-ID<d4boeqFbs2sU1@mid.individual.net>
In reply to#150650

"jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message 
news:PM00051E5ECC177290@aca20de0.ipt.aol.com...
> hqhy wrote:
>>
>>
>> "jmfbahciv" <See.above@aol.com> wrote in message
>> news:PM00051E4B0A74CC0C@aca20dba.ipt.aol.com...
>>> Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:26:14 -0400
>>>> Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> There was "folk knowledge", lots of articles saying "BASIC is the
>>>>> language to start with", and people would read that and pass it on, 
>>>>> not
>>>>> really giving it much thought.
>>>>
>>>>     Well the expansion of the acronym does start with Beginner's - so
>>>> it's a reasonable assumption. It's a pity it was intended to lead to
>>>> FORTRAN and COBOL not C, C++, Perl, Python and Haskell or even Lisp.
>>>>
>>>
>>> BASIC was used as a first-time-user training tool.  Before that FORTRAN
>>> was used to train kiddies on using heardware and thinking about program
>>> flow.
>>
>> Mostly it wasn’t kiddies.
>
> Yes, it was.

No it wasn’t, and you said so yourself with your comment about 'profs'

>>> When BASIC became available on PDP-10s, it was used as breaking
>>> in newbies instead of FORTRAN.  I/O, both disk and TTY, was simpler
>>> to teach than FORTRAN.
>>
>> You've forgotten Focal.

> Reread what I wrote.

No point, I know what you said.

> The newbies had never used a computer before.

Irrelevant to what language it was best to teach them.

> A simple language was used to teach both an intro to programming
> thinking _AND_ how to use the computer OS and hardware.

And DEC did that with Focal before they did it with Basic.

> Internals of the  machine were not part
> of that introduction to using computers.

I didn’t even comment on that. 

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#150590

Fromhancock4@bbs.cpcn.com
Date2015-08-27 09:39 -0700
Message-ID<8fc839ca-edbd-449c-b261-f19d24a37ef0@googlegroups.com>
In reply to#150554
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 6:30:02 AM UTC-4, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> 	Well the expansion of the acronym does start with Beginner's - so
> it's a reasonable assumption. It's a pity it was intended to lead to
> FORTRAN and COBOL not C, C++, Perl, Python and Haskell or even Lisp.

BASIC was developed in the early 1960s, long before C et al were developed and distributed.  It was an easy way to glide into COBOL and FORTRAN.

I might point out that BASIC also doubled as a calculator.  It was very easy to do calculations in BASIC, indeed, a single line formula in a print statement would do it.  We used BASIC (running off a mini computer) in college for physics class.  I used BASIC for calculations in high school and college--so much easier than a slide rule--and I also used it to generate tables.  When pocket calculators came down in price I was able to use them instead, but before that, it was great to have BASIC around.


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#150594

FromAhem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net>
Date2015-08-27 18:09 +0100
Message-ID<20150827180939.a1457d491186c1636285bc85@eircom.net>
In reply to#150590
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 09:39:05 -0700 (PDT)
hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 6:30:02 AM UTC-4, Ahem A Rivet's Shot
> wrote:
> > 	Well the expansion of the acronym does start with Beginner's -
> > so it's a reasonable assumption. It's a pity it was intended to lead to
> > FORTRAN and COBOL not C, C++, Perl, Python and Haskell or even Lisp.
> 
> BASIC was developed in the early 1960s, long before C et al were
> developed and distributed.  It was an easy way to glide into COBOL and
> FORTRAN.

	But not so hot for Algol and Lisp.

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#150597

FromMichael Black <et472@ncf.ca>
Date2015-08-27 13:51 -0400
Message-ID<alpine.LNX.2.02.1508271348440.23302@darkstar.example.org>
In reply to#150590
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:

> On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 6:30:02 AM UTC-4, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> 	Well the expansion of the acronym does start with Beginner's - so
>> it's a reasonable assumption. It's a pity it was intended to lead to
>> FORTRAN and COBOL not C, C++, Perl, Python and Haskell or even Lisp.
>
> BASIC was developed in the early 1960s, long before C et al were developed and distributed.  It was an easy way to glide into COBOL and FORTRAN.
>
> I might point out that BASIC also doubled as a calculator.  It was very 
> easy to do calculations in BASIC, indeed, a single line formula in a 
> print statement would do it.  We used BASIC (running off a mini 
> computer) in college for physics class.  I used BASIC for calculations 
> in high school and college--so much easier than a slide rule--and I also 
> used it to generate tables.  When pocket calculators came down in price 
> I was able to use them instead, but before that, it was great to have 
> BASIC around.
>
I think that immediate mode was one of the values of BASIC as a learning 
language.

I did the same thing with machine language, my KIM-1 had a really good 
monitor so I could single step things and see the outcome.

Being able to try out many of the functions and statements in BASIC 
without writing a whole program was a definite plus.  And of course, for 
some things, you could just run a line of code and get results.

On the other hand, I didn't get BASIC until well after I had a calculator, 
and a calculator just seems easier to use.  But then a GUI calculator on a 
computer doesn't seem the same thing as a pocket calculator.  I'm taling 
in terms of use, not function.

   Michael

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#150639

FromAhem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net>
Date2015-08-28 08:40 +0100
Message-ID<20150828084034.44bab31fb96e234ef30dc717@eircom.net>
In reply to#150597
On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 13:51:26 -0400
Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> wrote:

> I think that immediate mode was one of the values of BASIC as a learning 
> language.

	Yep, it's one of the things I like about Python.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith                          |   Directable Mirror Arrays
C:>WIN                                      | A better way to focus the sun
The computer obeys and wins.                |    licences available see
You lose and Bill collects.                 |    http://www.sohara.org/

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#150771

From"Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid>
Date2015-08-29 14:54 -0400
Message-ID<mrsv0v$idh$1@dont-email.me>
In reply to#150590
<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message 
news:8fc839ca-edbd-449c-b261-f19d24a37ef0@googlegroups.com...
On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 6:30:02 AM UTC-4, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
> Well the expansion of the acronym does start with Beginner's - so
> it's a reasonable assumption. It's a pity it was intended to lead to
> FORTRAN and COBOL not C, C++, Perl, Python and Haskell or even Lisp.

BASIC was developed in the early 1960s, long before C et al were developed 
and distributed.  It was an easy way to glide into COBOL and FORTRAN.

I might point out that BASIC also doubled as a calculator.  It was very easy 
to do calculations in BASIC, indeed, a single line formula in a print 
statement would do it.  We used BASIC (running off a mini computer) in 
college for physics class.  I used BASIC for calculations in high school and 
college--so much easier than a slide rule--and I also used it to generate 
tables.  When pocket calculators came down in price I was able to use them 
instead, but before that, it was great to have BASIC around.


    I know the thing I dislike about Basic which was what I started with is 
that line numbering thing. If you didn't go by 5,10,15 or even better 
10,20,30... then you could run out of lines and have to do a lot of 
re-writing.

Bill

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#150772

FromAndrew Swallow <am.swallow@btinternet.com>
Date2015-08-29 20:12 +0100
Message-ID<U-OdnWx8Er2wmX_InZ2dnUU78WudnZ2d@giganews.com>
In reply to#150771
On 29/08/2015 19:54, Bill Cunningham wrote:
> <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote in message
> news:8fc839ca-edbd-449c-b261-f19d24a37ef0@googlegroups.com...
> On Thursday, August 27, 2015 at 6:30:02 AM UTC-4, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:
>> Well the expansion of the acronym does start with Beginner's - so
>> it's a reasonable assumption. It's a pity it was intended to lead to
>> FORTRAN and COBOL not C, C++, Perl, Python and Haskell or even Lisp.
>
> BASIC was developed in the early 1960s, long before C et al were developed
> and distributed.  It was an easy way to glide into COBOL and FORTRAN.
>
> I might point out that BASIC also doubled as a calculator.  It was very easy
> to do calculations in BASIC, indeed, a single line formula in a print
> statement would do it.  We used BASIC (running off a mini computer) in
> college for physics class.  I used BASIC for calculations in high school and
> college--so much easier than a slide rule--and I also used it to generate
> tables.  When pocket calculators came down in price I was able to use them
> instead, but before that, it was great to have BASIC around.
>
>
>      I know the thing I dislike about Basic which was what I started with is
> that line numbering thing. If you didn't go by 5,10,15 or even better
> 10,20,30... then you could run out of lines and have to do a lot of
> re-writing.
>
> Bill
>
>
The renumber command was useful at handling these sort of problems. Used 
twice in limited range you could create a nice gap

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